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MONDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1946
TOP O’ THE MORNING
If you were busy being glad,
And cheering people w’ho were sad,
Although your heart might ache a bit
You’d soon forget to notice it.
If you were busy being good,
And doing just the best you could.
You'd not have time to blame some man
Who’s doing just the best he can.
—Rebecca Foresman.
P.-T.A. Points The Way
Attention is invited to a letter, re
produced on this page, from the Youth
Welfare Committee of the county PTA
council, which takes up the subject
of literary and pictorial filth which was
discussed editorially by the Star on
November 14.
The Wilmington mothers whose
names are signed to the communica
tion are but a few of the city’s parents
who have properly been alarmed for
the decadenceTof nation-wide moral and
Spiritual standards which stem at least
in part from the_ glamorization of
. wrong-doing in current fiction and mov
ing pictures.
The letter is particularly welcome,
and should encourage other residents
to hope for much needed reform, partic
ularly as it indicates the PTA council
is not content to wring its hands. Rath
er, it has put its shoulder to the wheel
and well deserves' public support in its
campaign for clean books and films.
The council has appealed to the local
legislators, as tlje letter explains, has
written U. S. Attorney General Tom
Clark, and called on the state Congress
of Parents and Teachers to make this
reform their chief objective in 1947.
Their effort can be materially helped
if other Wilmingtonians take up the
cry. “Out of the mouths of many wit
nesses the truth shall be established.”
If parents adopt the example of the New
Hanover Council’s Youth Welfare Com
mittee and flood Tom Clark’s office,
the office of the state PTA congress,
the offices of Senator Lennon and Rep
resehtative Kermon, and in addition
write other personalities including
Movie Czar Johnston and the publishers
of fiction, the weight of their testi
mony £annot fail ultimately to bear
fruit.
An Azalea Bowl
Efforts to arrange a New Year’s
Day football game here, with the High
school Wildcats representing Wilming
ton, fell through for a variety of rea
sons, none of which seems adequate.
But the fact that an effort was start
ed is a clear indication that Wilmington
is steadily becoming more and more
football-mipded.
Perhaps by another year the school
authorities and all interests concerned
will look with favor upon'a “bowl” game.
Meanwhile the county commission
will have time, if it hurries, to put the
stadium, in first class condition, with
attractve approaches, comfortable seats,
and even paved approaches with lined
off parking space.
Too, the Wildcats, which had a good
season, all things considered, and never
failed to draw capacity audiences, will
have benefited by another year’s train
ing under Coach Leon Brogden and
should come mighty near winning the
conference championship. It is not im
probable that the 1947 playing season
will end with the team on top. This, too,
should give impetus to the promotion
'of a "bowl” game.
Furthermore, as Wilmington is def
initely set to take advantage of its
azaleas and is planning for an azalea
festival in 1948, the city would not
lack for an appropriate name for its
“bowl.”
With proper publicity for an “Azalea
Bowl” game on New Years, the festival
scheduled a few months later would
get advance advertising that could not
be bettered.
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This Time Lewis Surrenders
Eight times John L. Lewis called
strikes in the bituminous coal industry
and won out. The ninth time he lost.
When he issued the order on Saturday
ending the strike which had already
caused untold suffering and put the
brakes on industry, it was he who sur
rendered—not the government of the
United States.
But it would be wrong to assume
that by knuckling down, however humi
liating that may be, however hard a
blow it strikes at Lewis’ egotism, the
miners’ czar has become, as we say,
a back number. He ended the strike
only because he knew full well that he
could not win, and took the course he
did in the hope of softening the judg
ment of the Supreme Court in the con
tempt case against him personally and
the union he has so long misled. It
would be in keeping with his conceit to
think by sending the miners back to the
pits the Supreme Court might be led
to rule against the fines imposed by
Judge Goldsborough in District Federal
Court last week and he and the union
go scot free.
Of course what the Supreme Court
does cannot be forecast, but one thing
is certain. Lewis violated a contract he
fiad made with the government, and was
not only guilty of contempt but precipi
tated what he acknowledges to be an
“economic crisis.” For doing that he is
as guilty today as he was before he
cancelled the strike. The order he is
sued on Saturday to his miners to go
back to work does not cancel his guilt.
Nor can the $10,000 he was fined or the
$3,500,000 fine levied on the United
Mine Workers, offset the “economic
crisis” he created. The Supreme Court
obviously will bear this in mind in
determining its decision.
Too much emphasis cannot be placed
on this “economic crisis” of Lewis’
creation'. The country’s average bitumi
nops coal production is 2,000,000 tons
a day. With production suspended, on
his order, for seventeen days, the coal
shortage reached 34,000,000 tons. Even
with the operators’ announcement that
they expect to have their mines in full
operation by tomorrow, this shortage
will not be overcome this winter. And
Lewis brought this condition about,
not because "his miners” as he calls
them were in financial want, unless
they had been wasting their high
wages.
John D. Battle, secretary of the Na
tional Coal Association, has shown in
a statement made in Washington that
instead of working -fifty-four hours a
week, as Lewis had claimed, coal miners
in September spent an average of 41.4
hours in the mines, including travel
time, and received an average of $61
a week, or about $1.48 an hour. Even
in these times that is a comfortable
living wage for any man and his family.
One result of the strike’s end is
that the Krug-Lewis contract, made last
May, will remain in effect until its
calendar expiration next March. This
means that Congress will have ample
time to pass new legislation or revise
the Wagner Act, so as to place the same
responsibility upon labor unions that
now rests upon industry, and require
them to employ collective bargaining,
without strikes during the necessary
negotiations, before the contract ex
pires.
Another result may well be that
other union leaders who have prepared
to call strikes in their unions will un
derstand that their day of dominating
the government and the people of the
United States is drawing toward a
close. If they lose any of the “gains” be
stowed upon them by the new deal over
so long a time, the blame will rest upon
them alone. If labor itself suffers, they,
again, must bear the blame.
They have sought to be dictators.
The country has been slow to act, but
at last has roused itself to the realiza
tion that in a republic like this there
is no room for imitative or potential
Hitlers.
As Pegler Sees It
BY WESTBROOK PEGLER
(Copyright by King Features Syndicate, Inc.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—All the better critic
isms of John L. Lewis that are being heard
today could have been uttered when he was
the political ally of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Lewis has not changed. His methods and
principals are the same. And the powers by
which he called the strike Of his subject
minersVare no greater today than they were
when teams of trained goons, many of them
communist street-fighters, were terrorizing
state-wide areas and lesser regions of the
automobile trade, the little steel centers and
Akron. Roosevelt gave Lewis those powers,
knowingly and with full understanding of
their extent and none of those who now dis
own Lewis on any grounds but still revere
Roosevelt can deny that historic fact.
These same objections to Lewis’ conduct
that are heard today were heard in those
days but were howled down by the Roosevelt
government and its political subsidiaries and
proteges as the cries of American fascists.
Roosevelt is dead, but this really frighten
ing danger to the power of elected govern
ment here and to ther faint hope of recovery
in Europe is his bequest to the nation whose
Consititution, on four occassions, he swore
to uphold, including fts purpose of insuring
domestic tranquillity and promoting the gen
eral welfare.
Roosevelt is dead, but Senator Robert F.
Wagner, who gave his name to this terror,
still lives and is silent in the piesence oi
peril that his law put upon a na'ion which
gave him refuge first from conscription by
the Kaiser of his native Germany and, later,
from Dachau. Felix Frankfurter still lives,
a Justice of the Supreme Court by Roosevelt’s
appointment, who heartily approved the Roose
velt alliance with Lewis and all that kind
and he, too, against warnings of the con
sequences to a generous nation which saved
him not merely from the concentration camp
but, almost certainly, from the gas cham
ber.
It is wrong, it is dishonest to abuse Lewis
today. He is not to blame. We do not blame
a man for asserting his rights under law and,
whatever the courts may decide as to wheth
er Lewis has technically overreached his
rights, there have been many cases in which
individuals claimed rights under phases of
law which had not been clarified. He thinks
he is within his rights, and the courts may
finally decide that, after all, he was, and with
Frankfurter concurring.
If Roosevelt, in creating this monstrous
power as a favor to a political protege, was
false to his oath to guard domestic tranquillity
and promote the general welfare, what can
Wagner say now to reconcile his law with his
own professed purpose to promote intestate
commerce? How tranquil are we and how
well off in the grip of this coal strike, caused
by the personal decision of one man, and
what is the condition of our interstate com
merce with the railroads refusing all bul
the most urgent kinds of freight and with
paralysis spreading so fast that even a sur
geon may be unable to operate on a desperate
patient for lack of light, heat and power?
In this strike we have heard, as though
it were news, that Lewis is a dictator ovei
the mine workers. But he was a dictator
when Phillip Murray, now the president ol
the CIO, and an enemy of Lewis, was one
of his subordinates on the national roster oi
the United Mine Workers. Roosevelt knew
ah about his union and his methods and knew
he was a dictator. We have heard that the
miners were not consulted to to whether they
should strike. Is that news to anyone? Were
they ever consulted? Did Senator Wagnei
heed warnings during the debate on his law
that boss unioneers would have the powei
to throttle all interstate commerce by call
ing out workers without consulting them and
to throw millions of others out of work and
onto the dole at the expense of state treasu
?.Cai! W*«ne'- that he was unaware
that his law contained no protection for the
workers and the public against arbitrary de
cisions by ruthless dictators, communist or
gangsters?0 Utl°naneS or common underworld
u ay we hear toat Lewis is a sly one
hat by usin^the strategem of merely refus’
ing to work without a contract” he not only
c ears himself of the charge of calling a strike
h«M-SaVeS* ?loney f°r his treasury by with
holding strike benefits. This is "discovered”
k«w VabnuH^T °* LSWis by men "he
Knew a.J about this lawyers’ slick-trick vear«
ago and applauded it. It was all part of /» ,
thereby state treasuries we« 5o
wo-kerhse madd.etirtf u"employ™ent benefits tc
wo.kers made idle by union orders, leaving
the unions millions intact. May we abuse
th.W‘* vrr shlJtlng tois financial burden tc
the public and praise the name of Roosev«U
who planned it that way? * RooseveI<
tr refusfs to work “without a con
abandoned when -the vandals and "’iotera whr
?nd^rdrthe Unit6d Aut0 Workerl ‘ofto" CIO
down stltees °And\t pl»nt". during his
aown strikes And the Roosevelt following
then called this a class war and said thr
goons most 0f whom never were employed^
jbe Plan,ts’ had a pr°Perty in their jobs^which
they had a moral right to protect J A
t ,uIn ‘hiS, cr}sis' in the alarming anarchy
of the Oakland general strike, as on so many
rPm?d0aCiC1S:0nS’ the pleas t0 Congress to,
remedial laws sound a conventional, hackney
ed note of caution lest Congress, in a state
a arm, go loo far” and injure the cause
of the workers But what, injury can the
worke.s suffer from any law which merely
breaks the pow£rs that Boosevelt gave tc
Lewis and hundreds of other unscrupulou-s
men to herd, rule, exile, regulate and share
the earnings of trillions of Americans without
even consulting their wishes?
Roosevelt’s legacy and Wagner’s evil in
fliction on the United States are bringing
this country today close to the show-down
which, in Italy and Germany, brought fasc
ism as a nationalized version of Leninism,
and an improvised, strong-arm substitute for
lawful government.
In spring, again, the . party promotion
will organize new visits of children, veterans
of the war and other Americans ty> Roose
velt’s grave at Hyde Park, to stand, in artifi
cial and degrading awe of a man who gave
John L. Lewis his power* apd called them
MAYBE HE’D BETTER DISCAKD that ujn*
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GOP Boasts Wide List Of Leaders
From Which To Choose 148 Nominee
By GEORGE GALLUP
Director, American Institute of
Public Opinion
PRINCETON, N. J., Dec. 7—The
resurgent Republican party turns
toward 1948 with nearly a dozen
popular leaders in the limelight as
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By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY
America’s Card Authority
Written for NEA Service
If you hold a six-card trump suit
to the ace-queen-nine, dummy held
three to the king, would you lead
to the king o. to the ace of trumps?
Many players have the habit of
leading an'honor from the aand
containing' two honors, but .the
correct play is given in today's
hand.
Naturally, with declarer t trump
holding,' the only wa.' he can lose
a trick in trumps is to find on* of
the opponents with all of those
missing. If West holds all four,
there is no way for declarer to
avoid the loss of a trick- There
fore the correct play is to guard
against the possibility that East
has all four. To do this declarer
would trump the second heart lead
and lead a small club to dum
my’s king.
West having shown out, dummy
returns the small club, and when
East ^ilits the honors, declarer
wins with the queen. A small dia
mond is led to dummy and the
eight of clubs led. Now East is
helpless, and declarer loses only a
heart and a spade.
One of the most difficult con
tracts to reach is five in a minor.
With only two spades and a single
ton heart. South would not be in
terested in contracting for game
at no trump. When he shows no
inclination to do so, North cor
rectly allows the hand to be played
at clubs, even though game at no
trump is impossible.
“labor’s gains.” Inasmuch as this
grave is technically a national
monument—not a shrine—and* pub
lic property, it is not amiss to
propose some symbolic reminder
In bronze, say a fascist symbol or
swastika, that he, too, had little
faith in the people’s capacity to
Rovern themselves and so gave
them in enormous herds and
bunches to John L. Lewis, Dan
Tobin, Walter Reuther and Jim
my Petrillo. /
possible G.O.P. nominees for the
presidency.
The air will likely be thick
with hats hopefully thrown
into the ring, because whoever
wins that nomination has a bet
ter chance of being elected presi
dent than any Republican has had
since 1928.
Governor Thomas E. Dewey of
New York is out in front at the
moment in popularity among the
rank and file of Republican voters,
a new poll just completed indicates.
His popularity increased after his
re-election as governor Nov. 5.
Harold E. Stassen, former gover
nor of Minnesota, also enjoys wide
popularity in the party. Senator
Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan,
John W. Bricker, Governor Earl
Warren of California, and Senator
Robert A. Taft of Ohio likewise
have a steady following, although
not as largey as in the case of
Dewey and Stassen.
The latest poll was conducted to
determine how the outcome of the
Nov. 5 elections might have affect
ed the popular standing of various
leaders with the rank and file of
Republican voters.
Here is the result and a com
parison with the vote in a similar
poll just before the Nov. 5 elec
tions.
Today Nov. L
Dewey _52% 40%
Stassen_17 22
Vandenberg _ 9 7
Bricker_8 8
Warren-5 6
Taft.2 8
MacArthur_2 5
Elsenhower _2 2
Saltonstall_1 1
Others _ 2 8
The figures represent the vote
among those expressing an opinion.
About one-fourth (23 percent) in
the latest survey said they were
undecided at this time about their
choice of candidate. In the pre
election survey, 33 percent expres
sed no choice
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A candidates chances of winning
the nomination are not necessarily
improved by popularity at this
time, a full year and a half before
convention.
A year and half before the
1940 convention for example,
the name Wendell WUlkie was
not even mentioned by Repub
lican voters polled. Governor
Dewey was leading in popu
larity then, with Vandenberg
and Taft next.
Willkie started a meteoric rise in
popularity just a few months before
convention time, and ended up by
taking the nomination away from
those who £ad been in the lime
light for a much longer period.
Prior to the 1944 nomination, on
the other hand, Governor Dewey
took an early lead in popularity
held it up to the convention time
and was nominated by the dele
gates. *
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These races for nomination
are always open affairs right
up to the last minute. Not mere
ly popularity, but so-called
“availability” Is a potent fac
tor in determinating the choice
of the nominating delegates.
It is entirely possible that some
man who is not at present being
mentioned will, a year and a half
hence, be the nominee. Scores of
additional Republicans, many of
them newcomers, were elected to
Congress or to governorships last
month. Any one of them may de
velop into the “favorite” by con
vention time..
A small Eisenhower boomlet has
been started as a result of the Gen
eral’s enthusiastically - received
speech before the C.I.O. conven
tion. Although today’s survey shows
General Eisenhower’s name toward
the bottom of the list, it is pos
sible that the next poll will find
him gaining as a result of the talk
linking his name to 1948.
Today’s poll highlights one im
portant political fact. With the ex
ception of Governor Dewey, the
problem of many of those named
in today’s poll is how to make
themselves better known with the
rank and file of the party.
Popularity is often a function of
how well-known a man is, how
easily people recognize his name
and whether they know in a gen
eral way what he stands for and
what the main outlines of his per
sonality are.
Letter Box
PTA TAKES STAND
To the Editor:
..Your editorial of November 14
“For Cleaner Novels and Films”
struck a responsive chord in the
minds and hearts of the members
of the New Hanover Parent Teach
er Council. We very definitely feel
that “the filth and smut and mar
ital infidelity paraded through the
pages of current fiction and in mov
ing pictures” is contributing large
ly to the morai breakdown of our
country: not only the chldren and
tvn ages, but the parents as well.
Visual education can be a stim
ulus for man's higher or baser mo
tives and the origin of all deeds is
his thoughts. Good pictures, good
The Doctor Says—
B COMPLEX AIDS
BODY, NOT MIND
Many people believe tha*
amount" of certain
of the vitamin B group are r
quired for optimal mental J'
formance. Drs. Harold Guetzk *
and Josef Brozek of the- Universi
cf Minnesota have established
however, that the mind is not
essarily affected by the absence l
vitamin B comolex.
Vitamin B complex probably ,
composed of 12 or more constiuent',
each of which plays an importa„
role in health maintenance To
examples, a deficiency of'thiam1!
can cause the patient to deveU
degeneration of the nerves «
beriberi; a riboflavin deficient
causes sericness about the lips an
tongue; and the lack of niacin
(nicotin acid) is the cause li
pellagra. se 01
The importance of an adequate
amount of vitamin B complex s
the diet cannot, therefore be over
estimated. But the importance is
purely physical and in no sense
mental. This fact DrS. Guetz
kow and Brozek established in i
carefully-controlled scientific 1est
They placed eight physically
sound young men on a standard
diet for 41 days, following which
part of the thiamin, riboflavin
experimental diet for 161 days
After this period of vitamin-B
complex semi-starvation, some of
the subjects were deprived of vita
min B complex altogether for 23
days, then given thiamin alone of
the complex constituents for 1J
more days. The diets were nor.
mal in every other respect.
Deficiency of vitamin B com
plex has been reported to
cause forgettfullness, decline of
mental alertness, and flightiness;
but it caused none of these in the
test subjects.
The mental improvement which
is reported to have followed the
administration of vitamin B com
plex to demented elderly persons
and mentally retarded children
might be explaine# on other
grounds. When vitamin B com
plex is important to general health,
we have scientific proof that its
absence does not necessarily in
terfere with mental performance.
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QUESTION; I am 36 years old
and desire a family. My husband
considers the physical risk ton
great at my age. What is your
opinion?
ANSWER; You are not too old to
have a baby.
books, good radio programs would
not only teach the children but the
parents. Of course, we realize the
responsibility lies with the parents,
but in so many instances nowadays
parents are estranged or work and
the children from necessity are
making this own decisions when
they really are not able to do so.
Since there are so many bad
movies, stage productions and
radio programs, to say nothing o!
the wealth of filthy printed matter,
they have had no chance to be dis
criminating.
We feel the integrity of out
country is really in jeopardy, and
we, as a group of parents who are
trying to bring up our children in
honor and decency, raise our
"small voice’’ to protest. If it is
possible for you to start a crusade
in the newspapers anywhere in the
United States to raise a larger
voice in this, one of the most im
portant issues of the day. this cru
sade for better influences on t:e
lives of our youth, we shall be
most grateful.
We have written to our legisia
tors, to Attorney General Clark
and to the North Carolina Con
gress of Parents and Teacher',
with a request to the latter th>
they make it the main objective
for their new year.
With the hope that we can awak
en oup nation to th^ seriousness c.
this Issue, we are,
. Cordially yours,
Youth Welfare Committee o!
the New Hanover Council of tee
Parent Teacher Association.
Mrs. I. J. Sutton, Pres.
Mrs. C. E. Bond
Mrs. Robert Darmenbauffl
Wilmington, N. C.
Dec. 7, 1946._
WHY WE SAY by STAN J. COLLINS I L J. SLAWSON
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